Ben Maddow Net Worth

Ben Maddow Net Worth is
$12 Million

Ben Maddow Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Ben Maddow (born August 7, 1909, Passaic, New Jersey - d. October 9, 1992, Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 70s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 30s.In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942).He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960).As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays.His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970).

Date Of BirthAugust 7, 1909
Died1992-10-09
Place Of BirthPassaic, New Jersey, USA
ProfessionWriter, Producer, Director
#Quote
1[on Philip Yordan, who signed several screenplays that Maddow claimed he had himself written]: Philip Yordan has never written more than a sentence in his life. He's incapable of writing.
2[on John Huston] I think that Huston truly believed that vanity, vanity, all is vanity. But he practiced the vanities.
#Fact
1American screenwriter, novelist and photography critic, educated at Columbia University. After graduating, he worked for three years as an orderly and technician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and for another three years as an investigator for the New York City Bureau of Welfare. During World War II, he worked as a scenarist for the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force. In feature films, he is best remembered for his collaboration with John Huston on the script of The Asphalt Jungle (1950).

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record1987TV Movie documentary
Man on a String1972TV Movie
The Mephisto Waltz1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria1969writer
The Chairman1969screenplay
The Way West1967screenplay
Kraft Suspense Theatre1965TV Series story - 1 episode
Arrest and Trial1964TV Series writer - 1 episode
An Affair of the Skin1963writer
The Balcony1963writer
Naked City1962TV Series writer - 1 episode
Two Loves1961screenplay
The Asphalt Jungle1961TV Series screenplay - 1 episode
The Savage Eye1960
The Untouchables1960TV Series written by - 2 episodes
The Unforgiven1960screenplay
Murder by Contract1958uncredited
God's Little Acre1958uncredited
No Down Payment1957screenplay - uncredited
Gun Glory1957uncredited
Men in War1957screenplay - front Philip Yordan
Johnny Guitar1954uncredited
The Naked Jungle1954screenplay - front Philip Yordan
The Wild One1953uncredited
Shadow in the Sky1952
The Asphalt Jungle1950screen play
Intruder in the Dust1949writer
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands1948adaptation
The Man from Colorado1948screenplay
Framed1947screen play
Native Land1942as David Wolff
Valley Town1940Documentary assistant commentary - as David Wolff
China Strikes Back1937Documentary short unconfirmed - unconfirmed
Heart of Spain1937Documentary short
The People of the Cumberland1937Documentary short as David Wolff

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
An Affair of the Skin1963producer
The Balcony1963producer
The Savage Eye1960producer

Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
An Affair of the Skin1963
The Savage Eye1960

Editor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Savage Eye1960

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
American Masters1988TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1960Flaherty Documentary AwardBAFTA AwardsThe Savage Eye (1960)
1960Mannheim Film DucatMannheim-Heidelberg International FilmfestivalThe Savage Eye (1960)
1951EdgarEdgar Allan Poe AwardsBest Motion PictureThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1964WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USABest Written American DramaThe Balcony (1963)
1951OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Writing, ScreenplayThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)
1951Golden GlobeGolden Globes, USABest ScreenplayThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)
1951WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USABest Written American DramaThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)
1951WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USAThe Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene)The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
1950WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USABest Written American DramaIntruder in the Dust (1949)
1950WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USAThe Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene)Intruder in the Dust (1949)
1949WGA Award (Screen)Writers Guild of America, USABest Written American WesternThe Man from Colorado (1948)
Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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